iwlwifi: mvm: properly flush the queues for buffering transport

There are transport that must buffer frames in the driver.
This means that we have frames that are not in the op_mode
and not visible to the firwmare. This causes issues when we
flush the queues: the op_mode flushes a queue, and the
firmware flushes all the frames that are *currently* on the
rings, but if the transport buffers frames, it can submit
these while we are flushing. This leads to a situation
where we still have frames on the queues after we flushed
them.
Preventing those buffered frame from getting into the
firmware is possible, but then, we have to run the Tx
response path on frames that didn't reach the firmware
which is not desirable.
The way I solve this here is to let these frames go to the
firmware, but make sure the firmware will not transmit them
(by setting the station as draining). The op_mode then needs
to wait until the transport itself is empty to be sure that
the queue is really empty.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c
index 7906b97..d963439 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c
@@ -1047,6 +1047,14 @@
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Note that there are transports that buffer frames before they reach
+ * the firmware. This means that after flush_tx_path is called, the
+ * queue might not be empty. The race-free way to handle this is to:
+ * 1) set the station as draining
+ * 2) flush the Tx path
+ * 3) wait for the transport queues to be empty
+ */
 int iwl_mvm_flush_tx_path(struct iwl_mvm *mvm, u32 tfd_msk, bool sync)
 {
 	int ret;